"I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate."

"What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life."

"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."

"Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A."

"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."

"President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."